The former Prime Minister was a guest on Chris Evans’ breakfast show on Virgin Radio when he confirmed rumours about what Boris did to have a football match suspended. The match in question took place on the pristine lawn outside Chequers, the the Prime Minister’s house, with both men and their children.
Boris, however, came in hard on his son with a heavy tackle that forced the game to a temporary halt.
Chris put it directly, asking Mr Cameron: “Is it true? Did Boris Johnson really tackle one of his own children so severely in a game of football on the lawn at Chequers that the game had to be halted and didn’t restart?
Mr Cameron replied: “It was halted. I think it restarted so it is another true story which is fortunate as I put it in my book – it’s all true.
“Boris’s family came to have lunch and there’s a lovely lawn outside Chequers.
“We used it for games of rounders, casual games of cricket but it was very good for football as a big lawn.
“And Boris is a very competitive player. He has got quite grown up children and I think it was his son Milo and he tackles him.
“There was a little crunch. It wasn’t a leg breaker – I think it probably would’ve got a yellow card rather than a rather than a red.
“So the game was briefly stopped but I think they continue, there were Johnson’s on both sides so yeah it was a fair game.”
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A year later, the Prime Minister took part in a game of mini rugby with children in Tokyo.
On receiving the ball Mr Johnson darted for the try line before clashing into one of the young players and knocking him over.
Mr Cameron’s interview with Chris was full of behind closed doors stories, both serious and humorous.
One included his recollection of visiting Queen Elizabeth II each week.
He reflected that it often felt like he was repeating what the Queen had already heard in her long tenure as monarch.
He said: “It’s a huge privilege for the Prime Minister to go and see the Queen every week and to have that audience because you find as you’re trying to explain what you’re doing you find often it clarifies your own thinking.
“Obviously the difficulty as I was her 12th Prime Minister, so I mean she’s heard every excuse in the book.”
He went on to joke: “Churchill was the first. But look from this window of this high beautiful tower I think we can see the Tower of London.
“And I don’t want to end up there so I think I will perhaps not say anymore.”
Mr Cameron recently announced that he had sought the Queen’s advice and support during the Scottish independence referendum.
Buckingham Palace later released a statement that it was “displeased” over the comments made by Mr Cameron, with one source telling the BBC “it serves no one’s interests” for conversations between the prime minister and the Queen to be made public and “it makes it very hard for the relationship to thrive”.
